Who Would Win In An Ultimate Presidential Fist Fight?

Height: 5'10" Weight: 210 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 42 Combat Experience: - Several boxing, wrestling, judo, and jiu-jitsu matches well into adulthood - Runner-up in a Harvard boxing tournament - Captain and commander in the New York National Guard (1882-1886) - Colonel in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War (1898) - Commander of the 1st US Voluntary Cavalry (AKA the Rough Riders) - First US president to receive the Medal of Honor Fightingest Presidential Moment: Roosevelt continued to regularly box and hold judo matches while in office, including one bout in which he was hit so hard he suffered permanent damage to his left eye.

Height: 6'4" Weight: 185 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 52 Combat Experience: - Accomplished wrestler - Captain in the Illinois State Militia during the Black Hawk War (1832) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Showed off to Union soldiers by holding an ax parallel to the ground at arm’s length for quite some time, and challenged them to do the same. No one else could manage more than a couple seconds.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 156 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 46 Combat Experience: - Skilled wrestler - General in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War (1843-1854) - Commanding general of the Union Army during the Civil War (1861-1868) Fightingest Presidential Moment: The only president to be arrested while in office, for speeding around Washington in his horse-drawn carriage. He paid his $20 bond and then skipped his court date.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 175 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 57 Combat Experience: - “Collar and elbow” county wrestling champion - Fought and commanded in the French and Indian War - Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution Fightingest Presidential Moment: Washington personally led the United States militia on the campaign to halt the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, making him the only sitting president to lead troops. Upon learning of the militia’s march and Washington at its head, the rebels gave up without a fight.

Height: 6'1" Weight: 140 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 61 Combat Experience: - Frequent fistfights as a youth, skilled wrestler, courier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1780-1781) - POW of the British Army (1781) - Fought up to 100 duels, and killed Charles Dickinson in one (1806) - Major general of the volunteer militia/United States during the War of 1812 (1812-1814), the Creek War (1813-1814), and the First Seminole War (1817-1819) Fightingest Presidential Moment: In 1835, a would-be assassin attempted to shoot Jackson, only to have his gun jam. The 67-year-old Jackson began savagely beating the assailant with his cane until he pulled out a second pistol, which also jammed.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 190 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 61 Combat Experience: - Boxer and head boxing coach at Yale and in the US Navy - Lieutenant commander in United States Naval Reserve during WWII (1942-1945), and saw combat on the USS Monterey Fightingest Presidential Moment: Ford survived two assassination attempts in September 1975, both by women and both in the state of California.

Height: 5'10" Weight: 171 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 62 Combat Experience: - Attended West Point - General of the United States Army and supreme allied commander during WWII (1942-1945), as well as stateside service during WWI Fightingest Presidential Moment: Only quit active duty upon assuming the presidency, even visiting the Korean front as president-elect and while still general of the United States Army. Returned to active duty as a five-star general after leaving office.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 170 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 64 Combat Experience: - Skilled wrestler - Major general in the United States Army during the War of 1812 (1812-1814), the Black Hawk War (1828-1832), the Second Seminole War (1837-1838), and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready” because of his many military victories, which also earned him his nomination by the Whig Party.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 184 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 49 Combat Experience: - Major general in the United States Army during the Civil War (1861-1863), commanded brigades at the Battles of Shiloh and Corinth Fightingest Presidential Moment: Survived an assassination attempt in 1881 and then held on to life for another 80 agonizing days, despite surgeons opening up a 20-inch wound in his abdomen that became horrifically infected.

Height: 6'2" Weight: 185 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 69 Combat Experience: - Army Reserve (1937-1942) - Captain in the United States Army Air Forces during WWII, served stateside Fightingest Presidential Moment: Reagan walked into the hospital under his own power after being shot and suffering a collapsed lung. Joked while being wheeled into surgery, telling his wife, “Honey, I forgot to duck” and returned to work the next day from his bed.

Height: 5'10" Weight: 144 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 48 Combat Experience: - Skilled wrestler - New Hampshire Militia (1831-1846) - Brigadier general in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848); commanded infantry brigades at the Battle of Contreras, the Battle of Churubusco, and the Battle for Mexico City Fightingest Presidential Moment: Refused to take the oath of office on the Bible, instead choosing a law book because his son had recently perished and Pierce was angry with God. Then became the first president in history to recite his inaugural address from memory.

Height: 5'9" Weight: 167 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 60 Combat Experience: - Missouri Army National Guard - Colonel in the United States Army during WWI (1917-1918), saw action in France, and remained in the reserves until 1953 Fightingest Presidential Moment: Ran to his window to face two would-be assassins, only to be shouted down by his Secret Service agents, one of whom perished in the ensuing gunfight. Truman kept his appointments for the rest of the day.

Height: 6'1" Weight: 173 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 43 Combat Experience: - Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve during WWII (1941-1945), commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific Theater and received the Purple Heart Fightingest Presidential Moment: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a fine candidate, but Kennedy deserves more credit for enduring daily agonizing pain due to Addison’s disease, and successfully hiding it from the public.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 340 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 51 Combat Experience: - Yale intramural wrestling champion - Major general of the American Red Cross Fightingest Presidential Moment: Taft was the heaviest president of all-time, weighing in at 340 pounds at his peak - though tales of him getting stuck inside a White House bathtub are apocryphal.

Height: 6'2" Weight: 174 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 57 Combat Experience: - Colonel with the Albemarle County Militia at the outset of the American Revolution. He did not see action. Fightingest Presidential Moment: Jefferson shocked onlookers by eating a tomato in public. At the time, tomatoes were largely believed to be poisonous, and Jefferson helped popularize them in America.

Height: 6'3" Weight: 200 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 55 Combat Experience: - Commander in the United States Naval Reserve during WWII (1941-1942), and came under fire on an observation flight - Recipient of the Silver Star Fightingest Presidential Moment: Johnson would take out his inordinately large penis, which he referred to as “Jumbo,” to intimidate political peers in the bathroom of the Capitol. He once went as far as to pee on the leg of a Secret Service agent, presumably to assert dominance.

Height: 5'4" Weight: 100 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 57 Combat Experience: - Commander for the Continental Army at the Battle of Bladensburg (1814) Fightingest Presidential Moment: When British troops showed up practically on his doorstep in Maryland, Adams rode out to the frontlines with his retinue, becoming the only sitting president to see direct combat and come under enemy fire on the battlefield.

Height: 6'2" Weight: 196 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 64 Combat Experience: - Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve during WWII (1942-1945) - Shot down on a bombing raid - Recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross Fightingest Presidential Moment: While on a state visit to Japan, Bush fell ill during a dinner, reeled, and then barfed all over the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa before fainting. The incident was chalked up to acute gastroenteritis.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 175 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 54 Combat Experience: - Major general in United States Army during the Civil War (1861-1864), wounded at the Battle of South Mountain, served at the Battle of Antietam and in the Valley Campaign Fightingest Presidential Moment: Due to the contentiousness of his election, Hayes became the first-ever president to take his oath in secret, doing so in a private ceremony on March 3, 1877. Two days later, he did it again in public.

Height: 5'10" Weight: 160 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 52 Combat Experience: - Lieutenant in the United States Navy during WWII and the Korean War (1946-1953) - Recipient of the WWII Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal - Helped disassemble and shut down a nuclear reactor submerged in irradiated water in 1952 Fightingest Presidential Moment: Carter was attacked by an aquatic rabbit while fishing in Georgia in 1979, but managed to fend the creature off with his paddle. The incident was caught on tape.

Height: 5'7" Weight: 199 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 54 Combat Experience: - Brevet major in the United States Army during the Civil War Fightingest Presidential Moment: Even as he lay dying of a bullet wound, McKinley attempted to save the life of his assassin Leon Czolgosz. He told the crowd attacking Czolgosz, “Don’t hurt him!” and dubbed him a “poor misguided fellow” who didn’t understand what he was doing.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 189 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 58 Combat Experience: - Storming of the Governor’s Palace participant (1774) - Major in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1776-1780) - Badly injured at the Battle of Trenton (1776) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Scaring off any and all other candidates during his 1820 reelection campaign and running unopposed, capturing all but one electoral vote.

Height: 6'1" Weight: 180 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 47 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Obama crushed the crowd and his opponents at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner just hours after giving SEAL Team 6 the order to take out Osama bin Laden.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 175 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 56 Combat Experience: - Commander in the United States Naval Reserve during WWII (1942-1945) - Recipient of two battle stars for service in the Pacific Theater Fightingest Presidential Moment: Nixon employed the “Madman Theory” to international relations, attempting to convince the Soviets that he might just be crazy enough to nuke a target like Moscow and finding a workaround to the concept of mutually assured destruction.

Height: 6'2" Weight: 224 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 51 Combat Experience: - Skilled wrestler - Brigadier/quartermaster general in the New York State Militia during the Civil War (1861-1863) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Kept at least 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe to facilitate multiple costume changes each day.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 174 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 56 Combat Experience: - Tennessee State Militia - Brigadier general in the United States Army during the Civil War (symbolic appointment) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Frequently turned down bodyguards because “if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.” This was especially bold considering what happened to his predecessor.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 191 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 54 Combat Experience: - First Lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War (1968-1973), served stateside Fightingest Presidential Moment: Bush dodged not one, but two shoes thrown at his head by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi on December 14, 2008.

Height: 5'11" Weight: 187 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 54 Combat Experience: None, but served as a guide for the US Marines during the Boxer Rebellion (1900) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Regularly played “Hooverball” on the White House lawn, a game that involved two teams hurling a 6-pound medicine ball over an 8-foot-high net at each other.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 174 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 49 Combat Experience: - Colonel in the Tennessee State Militia, no action of note Fightingest Presidential Moment: Worked 12-hour days throughout his presidency, during which any American citizen could stop by and chat with him.

Height: 6'3" Weight: 239 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 70 Combat Experience: None, but did fight Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23 Fightingest Presidential Moment: Stared directly into a solar eclipse without protective eyewear.

Height: 5’6” Weight: 150 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 61 Combat Experience: - Present for one naval engagement during the American Revolution (1778) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Personally attempted to save a burning home with buckets of water as president-elect in 1797. The owner of the home was one of Adams’s harshest critics.

Height: 5'9" Weight: 174 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 50 Combat Experience: - Major in the New York State Militia, no notable action Fightingest Presidential Moment: Ran from the Capitol to the Library of Congress in 1851 to help fight a fire there. Then, he personally signed a bill to replace all those books he’d been unable to save.

Height: 5'11" Weight: 260 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 47 Combat Experience: None (conscripted during the Civil War, but paid someone to take his place) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Kept a tumor in the roof of his mouth from the public while president, and then had secret surgery on a yacht to have it removed. His only stipulation was that they remove it from within his mouth, so as not to leave any scars or damage his mustache.

Height: 6'3" Weight: 223 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 46 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Clinton jogged three times a week as president, usually en route to a well-earned post-run meal at the nearest McDonald's. The habit proved a logistical nightmare for the Secret Service.

Height: 5'6" Weight: 160 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 55 Combat Experience: - Brigadier general in the United States Army during the Civil War (1862-1865) Fightingest Presidential Moment: He was so stiff that everyone referred to him as the “Human Iceberg,” though usually behind his back.

Height: 6'2" Weight: 188 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 51 Combat Experience: None, but he did attempt to resign from his post as the assistant secretary of the Navy to serve in WWI, only to be refused. Fightingest Presidential Moment: Roosevelt was dependent on a wheelchair, but faked greater mobility for the sake of public morale through steel leg braces, a cane, and sheer willpower.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 160 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 51 Combat Experience: - Captain in the United States Army during the War of 1812 (1812-1813) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Seized the full powers of the presidency upon William Henry Harrison’s passing definitively and controversially, thus setting the standard for presidential succession forevermore. Refused the title of "Acting President."

Height: 5'7" Weight: 175 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 57 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Skinny-dipped in the Potomac every morning.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 173 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 55 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Harding publicly backed Prohibition, but kept a fully stocked bar at the White House, held regular whiskey-fueled poker games, and once feuded with a monkey.

Height: 5'8" Weight: 162 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 68 Combat Experience: - Major general in the United States Army during the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) and the War of 1812 (1812-1815) Fightingest Presidential Moment: Delivered the longest-ever inauguration speech outside, during winter, in the rain, all without a coat, hat, or gloves. Then he fell ill and perished 31 days into his presidency.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 198 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 65 Combat Experience: - Private in the Pennsylvania State Militia during the War of 1812 (1814), served during the defense of Baltimore Fightingest Presidential Moment: Buchanan is the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor, facing the highest office alone and leading to decades of speculation about his sexuality.

Height: 5'10" Weight: 148 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 51 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Coolidge had a “mechanical horse” installed in the White House, which he rode three times each day for exercise, despite mockery.

Height: 5'6" Weight: 164 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 54 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Was nicknamed the “Little Magician” for his short stature and big charm.

Height: 5'11" Weight: 170 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 56 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: Following victory in WWI, Wilson immediately hopped on an 8,000-mile, 22-day tour of the US to promote the League of Nations - a tour so intense that he eventually collapsed from exhaustion and suffered a debilitating stroke.

Height: 5'11" Weight: 178 lbs Age Upon Taking Office: 78 Combat Experience: None Fightingest Presidential Moment: TBD